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Spousal Abuse

Spousal abuse is more commonplace than most people know.  Many couples stay together for the children sake never seeking help for the problem.  I documented my personal experience as a child growing up in this environment in my book called “Checkered Fences”.  I hope that my experiences will help others, in the same situation, to seek help.  Here are excerpts from my book.

“When I was twelve, my father’s mother, Grandmother Rose, passed.  This was the first time I ever saw my father cry.  From that day forward, my father never was the same.  He started to drink more and argue with my mother.  I would wake up in the middle of the night and hear a thumping noise against the wall.  I would get up and follow the sound to my parent’s room and listen at the door.  I could hear my mother hollering for my father to stop.  I would then knock at their bedroom door.  My father would say, “What do you want?  Go to bed.”

“No,” I would reply.  “Not until you stop hitting Moms.”

Daddy would then crack the bedroom door open and say, “Go to bed.  See there’s nothing wrong with your mother.”

I would look at my mother and could see she had been beaten.  “No,” I replied.  “Not until you stop!  You stop or I’ll wake the entire house up.”

“Okay, my father replied.  I’ll stop.  Now you go to bed,” he ordered closing his bedroom door.

I would stand in the hallway outside their bedroom door for about fifteen minutes.  Then I could hear my father knocking my mother’s head against the wall again and punching her in the stomach.  I started banging loudly on my parent’s bedroom door and yelling for my father to stop.

The next thing you know, the whole family was up asking what was wrong.  I told my sisters and brothers what was happening and everyone in the whole house would get upset.  My oldest sister, Joyce, would say we should call the police, but my father would always convince us doing so would only hurt the family.  “It wasn’t good to let the neighbors and other people know your family problems,” he would say.  Afterwards, my father would always promise to stop drinking, but he never did so.”

Alma Hudson, Author

Book:  Checkered Fences

Email Address:  Quench1@msn.com

Website URL:  http://www.eloquentbooks.com/CheckeredFences.html

Tagline:  Spousal Abuse

Short bio:  Alma Hudson works in legal management and is actively involved in community and environmental issues.  Ms. Hudson has an Associate’s and Bachelor of Arts Degree and lives with her two children and husband in California.